Lady Scientist Podcast

Dr. Caitlin Vander Weele is a neuroscientist and the founder and CEO of Stellate Communications, a science-first public relations agency. Caitlin studied brain pathways involved in motivated behaviors at MIT. During her PhD, she founded Interstellate - a neuroscience and art magazine that leverages research images for science education. She is an active advocate for alternative careers for scientists. On this episode of Lady Scientist Podcast, we dive into her research on dopamine receptors, her path to PR, the importance of good mentors and how Twitter plays an important role in both her career and support system.

You can find Caitlin on Twitter: @caitvw

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Casey's 'mind was blown' (her words!) one day when she learned in her high school science class that a cellular function they were studying worked via an 'unknown mechanism.' She decided then and there that she wanted to study science. Casey went on to work in a lab washing glassware (how many of us got our start!) before studying signal transduction during her graduate school work. During her postdoc she recognized that academic research often confines you to one lane and she wanted to do more, to learn more. So she worked as a field application scientist for a microscope company before moving on to Benchling where she gets to do EVEN MORE! She shares these and other awesome stories from her career with us on the podcast. Thanks for listening!

Franziska's mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was young. She wanted to understand more about her mother's disease, but what she found left her with more questions than answers. This led her to a career in scientific research and in particular, the study of proteins. During her graduate school research at Berkeley, she crystallized a protein dimer in groundbreaking work. After graduate school, she wanted to understand de novo designer proteins and did a postdoc in the Baker Lab at the University of Washington. She now works as a computational protein designer at Novo Nordisk in Seattle. We talk about another formative experience during Franziska's childhood: the world of competitive chess. What was it like playing chess throughout her teen years and into college? How did that environment impact where she is today and who she is today? And why did she decide to step away from the chess board? Join us for episode 5 of Lady Scientist Podcast!

Twitter: @FranziskaSeeger

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Amal Katrib studied biomedical physics and computational biology for her Ph.D. from UCLA. She went on to learn about women's health during her postdoc at the Institute for Systems Biology. Now she's blazing her own trail; she founded a telemedicine platform to virtually connect doctors to Syrian refugees and other marginalized communities (eSAHA) and she's writing a book about how to understand health risks in a world full of fake news. She's incredibly passionate about making the world a better place using her broad skill set. I can't wait for you to hear this episode and learn about Amal's path.

eSaha: https://www.sahadoc.com/

Amal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akatrib/

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Blythe Sather is the Senior Director of T cell engineering at Lyell Immunopharma, an emerging company focused on developing new cell therapies to treat cancer! She's also an amazing lady scientist. We talk about what its like to create a ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting new medicine, the importance of mentorship, and her longterm goals of running her own company one day.

Ali is an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a principle investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute. Her research looks at changes in the placenta during pregnancy. We talk about her career in science, what we know and don't know about pregnancy, and how certain substances like pthalates (in soft plastics) can have an impact on the developing fetus. I hope you learn something new about this under-studied area of molecular biology! Support this podcast: https://www.ladyscientistpodcast.com/...

Dani Bergey is a former research scientist and full time biological illustrator. We talk about animation, COVID, evolutionary biology and the scientists who inspire her! Join us for our first podcast episode, and forgive us as we learn to master our A/V skills. More episodes to come!

Things we talk about:

AlphaGo - The Movie

Cognition Studio Inc

DeepMind AI Podcast

E. O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence

Raoul Marks (animator)

The Mandalorian's "Volume" Production Video

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